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...nation's restive school teachers continue to display their fighting mood. As a statewide walkout in Florida went into its second week, new teacher strikes broke out in Pittsburgh and San Francisco and tension grew in Oklahoma and South Dakota. Teachers in Albuquerque went back to work, ending a six-day strike-but only after winning a commitment from New Mexico officials to seek more money for schools...
...this week and undertake a march on Harrisburg to demand higher pay. The Oklahoma Education Association scheduled a similar one-day walkout, urged its 27,000 teachers to attend a rally in Oklahoma City to apply pressure on the state legislature for more school money. In South Dakota, the state's Education Association declared a "sanctions alert" in a drive to increase salaries and legislative aid to schools...
...Tactical Blunder." Others, recalling the clumsy initial cover-ups attempted during the U-2 and Bay of Pigs disasters, were more circumspect. Presidential Candidate Richard Nixon called the whole affair a "tactical blunder" by the U.S. South Dakota's Senator Karl Mundt, long a G.O.P. supporter of the President's Viet Nam policy, demanded to know why the Administration risked provocative patrols "when you already have more war on your hands than you can handle." Warned Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield: "We ought to keep our shirts on and not go off half-cocked until we know more...
...been restored at a cost of $2,700,000-and reopened as the permanent home of the National Repertory Theater. Opening night proper will not take place until Lincoln's birthday, but last week a large cast of dignitaries turned out for the dedication ceremonies. Said North Dakota's Senator Milton Young, who worked for 19 years to get the necessary restoration appropriation from Congress: "For those who revere Lincoln, it is a dream come true...
...victims regardless of fault, and still gives them the option of going to court to ask for more. Such mixed systems are already operating in several other countries, notably in Canada's Saskatchewan Province, where auto insurance costs two-thirds as much as identical coverage in adjoining North Dakota...